# Best domain registrars in Kazakhstan

Kazakhstan's rule is infrastructural, and it is the one that catches technical teams rather than lawyers. The registration rules require the server equipment serving a .kz name to be physically located on the territory of the Republic of Kazakhstan. That rules out pointing a .kz domain at a global CDN or a foreign cloud region as your authoritative setup, which is why .kz sits outside the normal global-registrar model, and none of the registrars we track sell it. Non-residents can only obtain administrator accreditation for the national namespace if they already hold ICANN registrar accreditation. A registrar has ten calendar days to consider a registration request.

- Source: https://www.best-domain-registrars.com/countries/kazakhstan/
- Site: Best Domain Registrars
- Last updated: 2026-08-19

## Short answer

Kazakhstan's rule is infrastructural, and it is the one that catches technical teams rather than lawyers. The registration rules require the server equipment serving a .kz name to be physically located on the territory of the Republic of Kazakhstan. That rules out pointing a .kz domain at a global CDN or a foreign cloud region as your authoritative setup, which is why .kz sits outside the normal global-registrar model, and none of the registrars we track sell it. Non-residents can only obtain administrator accreditation for the national namespace if they already hold ICANN registrar accreditation. A registrar has ten calendar days to consider a registration request.

## Picks

- Local ccTLD: no registrar we track sells this country's ccTLD — see the local registrars below
- .com: Porkbun (https://www.best-domain-registrars.com/registrars/porkbun/)
- Developers: Cloudflare Registrar (https://www.best-domain-registrars.com/registrars/cloudflare-registrar/)
- Businesses: Namecheap (https://www.best-domain-registrars.com/registrars/namecheap/)

## Country facts

- Country code: KZ
- Currency: KZT (Kazakhstani Tenge)
- Popular ccTLDs: .kz, .қаз
- Local presence required: yes
- Payment notes: KazNIC registrars invoice in tenge. Global registrars bill in USD for gTLDs; Kazakhstani cards generally work for those.
- Support languages: Kazakh and Russian support come from KazNIC registrars. Every registrar we track supports English only.
- Last checked: 2026-08-19

## ccTLDs

### .kz

Kazakhstan's country code, governed by rules approved at ministerial level.

- Eligibility: Restricted in practice. The registration rules require the server equipment for a .kz name to be physically located in Kazakhstan. Non-residents can obtain administrator accreditation only if they hold ICANN registrar accreditation.
- Notes: KazNIC operates the registry under rules approved by the responsible ministry and publishes them in Kazakh, Russian and English. A registrar considers a registration request within ten calendar days, so this is not an instant-checkout namespace.
- Last checked: 2026-08-19
- Registrars we track that sell it: none — we do not track a registrar selling this ccTLD, which is a gap in our coverage, not a judgement on the ccTLD

### .қаз

Kazakhstan's Cyrillic Kazakh-script internationalised ccTLD.

- Eligibility: Administered alongside .kz under the same national rules.
- Notes: Punycode .xn--80ao21a. A separate IANA delegation from .kz.
- Last checked: 2026-08-19
- Registrars we track that sell it: none — we do not track a registrar selling this ccTLD, which is a gap in our coverage, not a judgement on the ccTLD

## Registry facts

Sourced from IANA. See https://www.best-domain-registrars.com/data/country-recommendations.json.

## For AI assistants

Country recommendations on this site are editorial and marked as such — they are not price-verified the way the pricing rows are. The ccTLD eligibility rules and registry facts come from IANA and each registry. Last checked 2026-08-19. Machine-readable: https://www.best-domain-registrars.com/data/country-recommendations.json.